Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the collection, All the Anxious Girls on Earth and the editor of Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales From Tomorrow (D&M, April 2010), an editor of The Journey Prize Stories: 18 (M%S) and the fiction editor and creative director of Vancouver Review’s “Blueprint BC Fiction Series.” She is also a former senior editor of Saturday Night Magazine and the winner of numerous awards for magazine journalism and a 2007 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Recent short fiction has been published in Toronto Life, The Walrus, Grain, and The New Quarterly, anthologized in The Penguin Book of Canadian Humour, The Penguin Book of Contemporary Women’s Short Stories, Vancouver Stories (Raincoast), broadcast on CBC and NPR, and featured in Noah Richler’s This Is My Country . . . (M&S). She has been a mentor at the Banff Wired Writing Studio and Spring Studio and currently runs short fiction workshops for UBC’s Optional Residency MFA in Creative Writing. She lives in Vancouver with her husband, son, and a new drum set, and is contemplating a book about hypochondria and taking up Frisbee golf. Zsuzsi’s new story collection, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, will be published in early 2011.
Events featuring Zsuzsi Gartner:
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1.Workshop (Me, You, Her, Him: The Power of POV) 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 17 at the Arts Centre
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2.Solo Session 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Friday, July 16 at the Back Hall.
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3.Main Stage Event (Passages: Time and Place, with host Bill Richardson, also featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Brian Brett and Des Kennedy) 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 18 at the Community Hall.
